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Packard, 61, 138

Pain-d'épice, 203.

Palestine, 261, 262, 386.

Pan, 279, 280.

Paraffine, 87.

Paralyzing effect of poison, 14.

Pater Abraham a Santa Clara, 17, 324.

Pausanias, 270.

Pears, 194.

Pennsylvania, 191.

Perry, Nora, 349.

Persephone, 268.

Persia, 180, 249, 256, 257.

Perspiration, 139.

Peter Martyr, 174.

Peter of Capua, 324.

Philadelphia, Phrygia, 219.

Pigneron, 92. 157, 191.

Pindar, 270, 291.

Piping of queen, 125, 160.

Plant louse, 198.

Plato, 286, 297, 317, 318.

Pleiades, 195.

Index Pliny, 12, 312, 362; on adulterated honey, 187; on bad smells, 151; on bees as augurs, 284; on bees as prophets, 286, 287; on colored wax, 318; on cornel, 192; on diseases of bees, 175; on drones, 129, 130; on honey as food, 204; on honey of Attica, 181; on honey poisonous to flies, 190; on horses stung, 108; on honeyed vinegar, 221; on honeyed wine, 222; on hydromel, 218; on incubation, 138; on king-bee, 113, 122; on large comb, 188, 381; on loss of sting, 102; on maddening honey, 190; on origin of honey, 195; on origin of wax, 86; on oxymeli, 221; on poisonous honey, 189, 193; on propolis, 1513 on queen cells, 121; on robber-bees, 172; on smell, 51; on smoking bees, 155; on swarming, 160; on transporting bees, 385; reason why bears attack hives, 168; remedy for stings, 101; transparent hives, 363; use of wax, 88; wax masks, 315.

Plutarch, 252, 298, 310.

Po, 386.

Poison, antidote for, 109; effect on toad, 171; effects of, 100, 109; flavor of, 100%; honey, odor of, 84; medicinal properties, 111; origin of, 100; preserved in honey, 107; season of greatest virulence, 100; volatile, soluble, 107.

Poison-ash, 192.

Poison-bag, 14-101.

Poison-gland, 96.

Poison-sac, 94, 96, 97, 101, 102.

Poisonous honey, 188, 189, 190.

Poisonous honey plants, 189-194.

Poisonous nectar, 37.

Poland, 168, 332, 373.

Poles, 337, 342.

Pollen, as food for larvæ, 123; changed into wax, 86; combs, 79; cross-fertilization, 182; digested, 84; first spring work, 148; forms bee poison, 100%; gathering-hairs for, 77; method of gathering, 78, 148; pollen baskets, 77, 78, 120; substitutes for, 148; unloading pollen, 148; wild bees' pollen, 15; wild rose, 37; willow, 148.

Pollio Romilius, 222, 299.

Pomerania, 354.

Pontus, 182, 189, 190, 282.

Pope Urban VIII., 323.

Porphyry, 268, 269, 270, 282.

Potrimpos, 332, 333.

Prayers to bee, 327, 328, 336, 337, 344.

Prescriptions of honey, 85, 252.

Preserving power of honey, 86; dead bodies, 252, 253, 344; fruits, 204.

Priapus, 279.

Proboscis, 19-27, 76, 142.

Tongue.) Propolis, 147, 149, 150, 151, 173.

Proserpine, 268.

Proteus, 271.

Proverbs, 259.

Psalms, 258, 259.

Pulvilla, 73.

Punjab, 368.

Pupa, 125.

Puranas, 232. (See Purity in connection with bees, 355- Pyrenees, 341.